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Monday, May 26, 2014

The best kind of candy tastes good and gets your brain revving - that sugar high!These two luminaries get my brain revving about what's important and what's possible. Every so often on the blog I hope to bring to your attention some folks that have been inspiring me lately - my brain candy - people who are inspiring me to think even BIGGER. I bet you'll find them fascinating as well.First up? Nilofer Merchant.

I'm hoping you already know her name and are well aware of her many accomplishments.Not aware? Then you're in for a treat.She is an entrepreneur (launching more than 100 products), author of The New Howand 11 Rules for Creating Value in the #SocialEra, visionary thinker, TEDster, and proponent of the walking meeting. She's also known as "The Jane Bond of innovation" - read more here for how that nickname came to be.In this most social of era's Nilofer is savvy about the way the social world works (after all, she wrote a book on it) but is also refreshingly open and honest in her writing. For a great example, see her recent essay How Do You Take in Criticism?You can find Nilofer all over the interwebs in all the usual social places. I suggest starting with her website and one of her TED talks (below), then if you're taken in by her mix of gusto and vulnerability, a Facebook follow may be in order.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Many of you have asked about resources to stay up to date on the news with Glass and other wearables.

Below are a few recommendations of my favorite ways to stay up to date:

Weekly Dosage of Google Glass - hosted by the fantastic Andrew Pritykin and with a rotating group of fantastic guests from the Glass community.

Wearables Weekly, another fantastic weekly vidcast focuses not only on Glass but other developments in the wearables market and includes such Glass luminaries as Noble Ackerson, Libby Chang, Keith Achorn and others.

Alexander Hayes' Google Glass Interviews, in his words, are "A a record of my interaction with the Google Glass Explorers Community and other related contacts from industry, research and affiliated organisations...to gain an understanding of the key motivations, experiences and understandings that these individuals gain from engaging with this emergent wearable technology."If you want to get a broad spectrum of the careers, walks of life, and interests of more than 45 Glass Explorers, Alexander's videos provide that and are incredibly interesting! Below is a link to the entire playlist of interviews.The official Glass YouTube channelshares Explorer stories as well as some amazing short films made with Glass. Below is a link to the Explorer stories playlist, but I encourage you to also check out the short films!Explorer blogs to follow (besides this one, of course!) include: evoluzination by Cecilia AbadieGlass AlmanacGPOP blogLiving Thru GlassAnd finally, there's no better place than Google+ to chat with Explorers...whether you have Glass or not (we're a very friendly bunch). The best (biggest, very active) community is the Glass Explorers community. Whew, that should get you started! If you feel like anything's missing on this list, let me know in the comments.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

The event was hosted at the Google offices in Cambridge, and the place was packed with 200+ folks as the evening kicked off with four esteemed keynote speakers: Steve Horng, Nayan Jain, Rafael Grossman, and Christopher Coburn.

Dr.Steve Horng
of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the ED lead for the Google Glass
Project at Beth Israel, and his team with first to fully integrate Glass with
their EMR system and deploy live for clinical use in the emergency
department.

The
Beth Israel team has long been at the forefront of technology, having found
that providing physicians with iPads allowed clinicians to spend 38 minutes
fewer at a workstation. Now their team is testing Glass, including live
streaming data so as soon as it's updated in the EMR system it's updated on the
Glass.

They've
developed processes and systems using Glass to allow clinicians to update the
EMR, check on patient status (and even location) while on the move throughout
the hospital. Using machine learning techniques, they have even built a cool
graphic bar chart which is a one-stop quick look at the patient roster by how
sick folks are (based on their projected 30 day mortality).

Their
Glass is locked into the hospital network and hooked into the EMR, so you
cannot take Glass outside of the hospital, essentially.

Nayan Jain, Presidential Innovation Fellow, spoke about Blue ButtonConnector - a way for patients to find their health information. He showed a video of how Glass could
integrate with Blue Button and went on to share additional information about
the site/resource.

Blue
Button Connector (currently in beta) will be a symbol for patient's access to
their own data. For instance, insurance companies will be able to show the blue
button logo on their website, indicating they are participating in the
program. Those developing the program want to empower consumers to be
able to do everything from printing a physical copy of their health records to
sharing with a third party application.

FYI that Bluebuttonplus.org
is the developer site.

Dr.Rafael Grossman
was up next, and spoke about being the first physician to use Glass during live
surgery. An advocate of telemedicine and telementoring, Grossman asked us to
imagine how Glass can be used for health care for everything from alerting a
phsyician to a patient allergy, the right side for surgery, etc. Grossman feels
that "Telementoring through Google glass is the holy grail. Glass is the
perfect platform for that."

Dr.
Grossman spoke at TEDxDirigo last year on this topic as well - worth a watch -
he's a dynamic speaker and an industry leader:

Chris
Coburn,
VP of Innovation at Partners HealthCare was the final keynote speaker. Coburn
spoke on how traditional lab-based innovation is now being eclipsed by things
like EMRs and genetic analysis. Decision making in real time is key. He's
excited to see how this kind of information will work it's way into the
physician/patient encounter (the central hub of healthcare). Coburn previewed
that Partners will be sponsoring the World Health Innovation Forum next year in
Boston, billed as "the Davos of healthcare."

Next
up was a showcase by Dr. Karandeep Singh, Nephrology Fellow at Brigham
and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital, demoing "wearable
EHR" for the first time. Dr. Singh is the developer of Brigham's EHR
prototype for Glass. He discussed the pre-EHR world, where to find
patient info you went to the bedside and the chart. Now, looking at a patient
chart from the workstation is preferable to some, "which means the art of
medicine is being lost."

Singh
said that "Traditional EHRs don't understand context. Traditional EHRs
assume you the physician will design your workflow around it vs the other way
around. EHR's are entirely absent where you need them most, which is the
bedside."

"The
use of a wearable EHR can change patient care and bring back some of that lost
art of medicine."

Judges
for what, you ask? Judges for the MedTech Google Glass Challenge, in
collaboration with the White House Innovation Fellows and H@cking Medicine
@MIT.

Competitors
for the Pitch-Off flew in from around the country for the finals. The
finalists had made it through two months and three rounds of semi-finals to get
to the finals.

Each
presenter had 5-7 minutes to pitch and take questions from the panel.

Key
themes that emerged from the many pitches were:

·Using
Glass to make recording notes/dictation/operating notes easier

·Big
data - using Glass as a pathway to a repository of data across the EHR while
on-the-go

·Use
in the field - including equipping EMTs with Glass to consult with physician
visually while en route, equipping areas that have fewer physicans with Glass
to enable more telemedicine, using Glass for home health care and hospice
work

Possibly
the coolest (visually) pitch was that by Lilit Sargsyan of UT Health who
provided an overview of remote ultrasound powered by Glass (the talk included
Antarctica and the Space Station).

The
winner of the pitch-off was Timothy Aungst, PharmD, who provided a compelling
case for "Bringing the Doctor to the Patient's Home"

It was great to connect with fellow Glass Explorers including Don Schwartz and Trish Whetzel!

And finally, THIS is what happens when the event is located near the MIT COOP: